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Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash lets an attacker exhaust node memory by matching a filter that spans multiple to-many relationships in memory.
Ash.Filter.Runtime matches a filter against an in-memory record by first expanding the record into combinations of its related rows. flatten_relationships/2 (lib/ash/filter/runtime.ex) eagerly built the full Cartesian product across the filter's to-many relationship paths, so a record with K to-many relationships of M rows each materialized on the order of M^K scenarios before any predicate was checked. A filter or dataset that reaches several sizeable to-many relationships therefore allocates memory combinatorially and can exhaust the node. The fix streams the expansion lazily and short-circuits on the first matching scenario, bounding the work.
This issue affects ash: from 1.29.0-rc0 before 3.32.2.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-400
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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-130
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Excessive Allocation
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / ash Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / ash-project/ash Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
References
GHSA-mgwj-c69v-6f83 ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-82742 ↗
related
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N